in big news, we bought our first house!!!! i guess i cant even really say that yet, but we close on friday, so its so soon. the appraisal came back and no hiccups there. so we are ready to go! with it being so soon we have been packing like crazy yet trying to live in our current townhome. its more difficult than i thought. i want to pack it all room by room, but we stil use most of it! weird its like its our stuff or something. we are leaving the kids toys for last because i dont want to deal with that headache and tantrum. but everything else is going smoothly! i just packed everything off the walls and it somehow makes this place seem even colder. probably just a mental thing.
all 3 kids came down with a cold this week. perfect timing right? we move in 3 days and i have 3 sick kids who need all my attention and snuggles. sunday night rex woke up every half hour. all. night. long! i was much more understanding because i knew he was sick. but it was still rough. the whole next day i was awake purely on prayers and Gods pity that we had to go through that. the next night he did much better. still congested, but better. poor rylie had the bad night. she has been the most drippy from the nose region. she always has bad colds. but what makes it worse is she cant have her pacifier to comfort herself because then she cant breath! great time to ween her off of it? you would think, but its a comfort. and when your sick your not into trying new things... ugh. it is a struggle but we are working with it.
this last month was great. most of it was getting excited for thanksgiving. we were able to spend the whole week in colorado. the kids all did great going. we only stopped twice for gas and potty breaks. rex did great eating. i would pump then give it to him directly afterwords from a bottle. he did fine. on the way back he wasnt as okay with it. but we still made it back okay. he cried a little more, and we stopped 3 times. but we worked with it. still made good time. great for his first trip. i think we were just all vacationed out at that point.
the week was fun! filled with lots of food prep and family fun. we did another escape room. it was egyptian themed. unfortunately we "suffocated" due to lack of oxygen. we were trying to hard to open a box that apparently didnt need to be opened. but in our defense. we actually found the key to unlock the last door in the first room in the first 20 min and just didnt know it. it had not been put back in the treasure chest so we could have gotten out! but didnt know what it was for and forgot about it as we went through the other 2 rooms full of obstacles. we would have been super confused had we opened the treasure chest and the key wasnt inside. so either way we were destined to lose.... clearly we need to try again. ;) we always love those games.
justin and i went on a date to see fanastic beasts and where to find them. loved it. close enough to be in the harry potter world to let me geek out a little bit. little bit of romance, some magic and a few surprises. all in all it was really good. i liked it.
wed i made all my goodies. i made a pecan pie german chocolate bar to keep at home to eat. it was gone by sat morning. then i made 2 pecan pies. my favorite. there was a big family discussion on whether to put wheat in the homemade crusts my mom was making for it. long story short... there was wheat in the crust. but it ended up being just fine. still very delicious. I also made some apple cobbler for my family and it was devoured. i like making desserts. can you tell? haha
thanksgiving was fun! pretty mellow in the morning. we tried to get ryker and rylie to take a nap early. didnt really work but we tried. dinner around 3 ish. and then some fun talking and playing. poor ryker asked around 6 to go home and go to bed. he was so tired he just wanted to sleep. we endured through the pie eating contest. (the promise of pie perked him right up.) then went home. it was great. we got in a lot of good games with the fam. mom and dad taught justin and i how to play bridge. it was interesting and i kinda sorta get it. but mostly still hate being the winning bid. im never super confident. haha. as part of justin and mines christmas my mom got us (and ethan and dad) a spot to go to a virtual shooting range. it was fun! had some good scenarios. with not worrying about bullets my trigger finger was a little sore after haha.
it was a great trip and we all had fun. now we are all ready for christmas! or trying to be. it makes me sad that i am not decorating because im packing. but i will decorate as i unpack in the new house! and i will make justin out up our tree. its out first christmas in out house! it is happening.
next time i will show pics of the new house!
rylie reading to rex while we wait for ryker to be done on the potty before bed
faces with dad.
justin figuring out our makeshift 8th seat so all the kids could be in the front
trying it out. i htink ryker missed being up front
so glad to finally be at grandmas house in front of the warm fire!
this is a weird blue monkey thing that auntie fae had in her room from high school. rylie found it and fell in love. maybe it was because it had some of fallyns essence. she dragged this thing all around the house all week.
grandad bonding with rex
our first official logo! we want to put this on all the things we make. now we have it figured out!
preview to our christmas card. good lookin family on a summer day it seems. it was like 80 in colorado. what the heck!?!?! where is winter
playing at the park
rylie looks so sweet looking at justin.
she has started this thing where she wants to carry all her toys and all she wants all at once. sometimes its hilarious to watch. in this photo she has 2 stuffed animals, her baby doll, a waterbottle, a tennisball, and she wanted the blanket. all while she is wearing 2 coats. ambitious. haha
family knockout. tradition!
ryker really wanted to be involved. grandad and dad helped. but he kept throwing it down like a slam dunk which they couldnt get him high enough for. so he never actually made a basket, but he did swish the net a lot! thanks for the help guys!
how the pie eating contest started. spoon for ryker, finger for rylie
rylie licking and ryker finally using his hands
rylie is getting better!
notice my kids are the only ones with their clothes still on. haha my modest kiddos... they just dont like to be naked. from everyone else i hear thats not usally the problem with kids.
finally! rylie went all in. and ryker getting the theme of the contest. haha.
justin and i were corralling kids into the car to go home so we didnt participate, but i was in the gym while they did! go carlee/alicia/brandon!
go go go!
carlee rocks it. i dont know if she won or not but she was close
the happy couple with some great facial pudding. carlee looks annoyed, sorry carlee. i caught her just before she smiled. oops...
rylie holding 2 animals and a baby for bed. i was trying to keep her happy and let me brush her teeth
ethan learning car stuff. he changed his oil, checked his breaks. and maybe a few other things. but he is learning how to take care of his car. haha
rex enjoying grandmas swing
fun drive home. rylie finally got a little sleep
we are starting oatmeal! hasnt helped with sleep yet, but im hopeful
these are some outtakes from our christmas card photo shoot. getting 3 kids to smile and look at the camera is so impossible! it was insane trying to make it work
rylie wanted to help get rex to smile. bahahha. i still laugh so hard looking at this.
joy school - G is for grinch
happy boy!
4 generation photo with rex. he even is smiling a little. haha
more traveling. i think they were watching our new movie finding dory for the road trip.
happy thanksgiving aunt dani! gobble gobble!
raspberries for rex while we get ready for bath time!
ryker found this more interesting than reading our scriptures. so hard keeping a straight face
i also found out that rex is ticklish. let the fun begin!
we found some just dance videos on youtube and the kids love them! this is a favorite
he has turned into such a chatty cathy! i love it.
when auntie beez came to visit a few months ago, she taught them to get excited for pizza and cookies (we were going to make them later) and now they say this almost everytime we get in the car in the evening. its hilarious. thanks auntie beez
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